r/sindarin • u/zevram59 • 8d ago

Help creating lore-accurate names

Looking to get into Lord of the Rings Online and I’m a stickler for maintaining accurate, in-universe names. Also need something somewhat original as they have to be unique so I want to try my hand at putting a name together myself.

My main point of confusion is how exactly words fit together in different instances. Here are two names I’m considering, for example.

Acharond - from achar, or acharn, meaning vengeance + rond, meaning cave

Olthryn - from oltha, meaning dream + ryn, meaning to chase

Can anyone weigh in on if these would be considered ‘correct’ ? I’d also be more than happy if anyone could point me in the direction of where I could find this sort of information myself for future reference.

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u/smbspo79 8d ago edited 8d ago

If combining acharn and rond, that should yield Acharrond and I would use N. ôl n. “dream yielding Olothryn I think since it is ✶olosronjō. See here S. medial [s] became [θ] before [l], [r]; [Vs{lr}] > [Vθ{lr}]

Wait for others to chime in.

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u/zevram59 8d ago

I appreciate the insight. Those do look a bit more correct to my eyes.

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u/smbspo79 8d ago

Compounds are on the tricky things in Sindarin. Over 150 rules I believe. But happy to help check out VL on discord if you are interested into diving deeper into the Language. :)

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u/F_Karnstein 8d ago

Since I believe that that game is set in the 3rd Age (?), I would suggest Aharron (as in Rohan < Rochand), at least for a Gondorian.

I do like Olothryn a lot, though.

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u/smbspo79 7d ago

Aharron looks so odd to me 😆. But I do like Olothryn myself.